Microphones are an absolutely critical part of my video kit, and I’m very hard on them. So when I find something that works, I tend to stick with it for a long time.

Walking into Leica's new flagship store in New York City immediately evokes a sense of luxury, and yet, the space still feels welcoming. It's a tricky line to toe, but somehow the shop and gallery pulls it off.

The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund announced that photographer Irina Werning from Argentina is this year's recipient of its $30,000 grant for Humanistic Photography for her project Las Pelilargas.

Photography icons Helmut Newton, Weegee, Irving Penn, Brassaï, Berenice Abbot, and Bill Brandt all feature in a new exhibition focusing on nightlife in New York City, Paris, and London.

The uncanny valley's hungry cousin is coming for food photography, it seems. A recent study found people view AI-generated images of food more appealing.

Leica's medium format S-system has not seen an update since the S3 debuted in 2018 -- six years is an eternity as far as camera technology is concerned.

Cosina is further adding to its RF line of lenses by bringing its Voigtlander Nokton 75mm f/1.5 Aspherical lens to Canon's mirrorless mount in April.

The global news director of Agent France-Presse (AFP) has compared Kensington Palace to North Korea, stating it is no longer a "trusted source" of information after the revelations Kate Middleton Photoshopped her own picture.

As the saying goes, deals are in the air. Okay, that may not be the real saying, but that certainly is the case this spring. Every camera brand still has sales running, with OM System lenses added to the long list. Plus, there still plenty of deals on film, bags, printers, and more.

The cinematographer behind Dune: Part Two has revealed how he was able to make everything look so big in the highest-grossing movie of 2024 so far.

Since using my first pen tablet over a decade ago, I found that working with display tablets provided an extra level of precision to my work since I could see exactly where my pen strokes were connecting on the screen. This let me be more precise and creative with my edits, but most of these tablets were either incredibly expensive or overly large. The $1,099 Huion Kamvas Pro 19 solves both these problems.

Underwater drones are still in their infancy. While filmmakers are already using them to create magnificent art, underwater drones haven't approached ubiquity for consumers and enthusiasts. However, Australian company Advanced Navigation believes it can change the landscape (or seascape) with its new Hydrus autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).

DxO PureRAW 4 promises to “supercharge your cameras and lenses” by offering a suite of image quality corrections for RAW files: deep-learning noise reduction, superior demosaicing, as well as per-lens correction of distortion, softness, vignetting, and aberrations.

The companies developing generative AI technologies are, typically, skirting around the rules regarding copyright: very few actually provide the public with concrete information on how they train their models.

Using the remarkable 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam), astronomers have made a 1.3-gigapixel image of the ghostly Vela Supernova Remnant. The beautiful, detailed, and colorful image is the largest DECam image ever at 35,786 by 35,881 pixels, putting even the highest-resolution medium-format interchangeable lens cameras to shame.

The upcoming solar eclipse on April 8 is a highly anticipated event, in large part because it will be the last to cross over North America for 20 years. It is a special event to witness and photograph, though it does require planning and preparation.

A concert photographer narrowly missed a guitar being thrown at him on stage -- after a heavy metal musician mistook him for someone else.

A wedding photographer is to be sentenced after pleading guilty to felony theft after scamming dozens of couples.

Midjourney CEO David Holz says it's time to put his foot down on AI-generated images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden ahead of the presidential election in November.

Fujifilm announced the Mini 99 Instant camera which it says maintains the classic Instax aesthetic while incorporating new features that allow photographers to control color, brightness, and focus.

After European Union lawmakers reached an agreement on the EU's landmark EU AI Act in December, the law cleared its last significant hurdle, achieving European Parliament approval earlier today.

Computational photography techniques are the backbone of what makes smartphone cameras as good as they are and for years, photographers have been wondering when that technology would arrive in standalone cameras.

Last week, Nikon made the surprise announcement that it had acquired RED Cinema, one of the most well-known American cinema camera companies. That one move changed the camera landscape dramatically overnight.

Logitech appears poised to announce a new interchangeable lens streaming camera under its Mevo line next week that uses the Micro Four Thirds mount.

The photographer who shot Princess of Wales Kate Middleton this week has been forced to deny the image was doctored after speculation that the picture had been Photoshopped.

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the video app in 165 days or face a total ban in the United States.

A wedding photographer has been praised on TikTok for stopping a guest from taking photos on their phone during the ceremony.

Coincidentally, less than a day after PetaPixel's editor-in-chief Jaron Schneider touted the benefits and quality of his trusted Think Tank's Pixel Pocket Rocket memory card holders in an internal Slack chat, Think Tank has announced an across-the-board update to its Pocket Rocket memory card and battery wallets products.

A photographer has emerged victorious after suing a website for using his Creative Commons image without the proper credit.

YouTuber Alec Watson of Technology Connections explored the fascinating history behind the single-use camera flashes of days past -- and it's a blast.

As photographers moved from film to digital photography, they gained a new flexibility that changed the entire process. However, what was lost in that transition was a need for a more tangible connection to images that only a printed photo can provide.

Canon has announced a new firmware update for its video-focused EOS C500 Mark II camera, bringing enhanced Cinema RAW Light formats to the flagship cine camera.

For years photographers have been able to make images of the same person in different settings. And now AI can do the same.

Sigma may be best known for its photographic lenses, but the company's video-specific Cine lenses are very well regarded in the industry. So much so, in fact, that the Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) has selected Sigma Cine lenses as its new standardized test lens.

Two teen boys have been arrested for allegedly making deepfake nude images of their classmates -- in what is believed to be the first-ever U.S. instance of criminal charges in relation to AI-generated nudes.

Kate Middleton is at the center of 2024's biggest photo controversy after admitting to editing an image of herself posing with her children.